Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Words. The Shah, whose government will spend $1 billion this year to subsidize imports of meat, wheat, sugar and soybeans, insists that rising oil prices are no different than rising commodity prices. He seeks to tie the two together in an economic index that would help to limit further increases. The U.S. position is that oil is artificially priced, which the Shah himself admits, while agricultural increases are a response to free market conditions. President Ford, and Kissinger in his latest United Nations speech, abruptly cautioned the oil-producing nations not to price their product at disastrously high levels...
...among other groups. Japan, where the traditional diet is low in animal fats, has the lowest breast-cancer rate of 39 countries covered in a recent study. But even there the rate is rising as Japanese forsake their old diet of fish and rice for a Westernized menu of meat and fats. Japanese women who emigrate to the U.S. have higher breast-cancer rates than those who remain in Japan. Their U.S.-born daughters have breast-cancer rates approaching those of American women in general. But how and why high-fat diets might trigger breast cancer remains a mystery...
...marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy, argue or bicker or tease. Scorsese even defies that eternal cliche of Italian-American life by showing his mother cooking meat balls and tomato sauce. At film's end, in gleeful tribute, he includes the recipe in the credits. Italianamerican has a kind of impulsive immediacy and is rich in the sort of raucous humor that people can create only when they are not conscious of being overheard...
Other wives are striking out on independent courses of their own. Betty Talmadge, wife of Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, manages a meat business, Talmadge Farms, which grosses $3.5 million a year. "I have shaken hands," she says, "but I have never made a campaign speech in my life." Even Muriel Humphrey, a notably docile political wife, recently declared a measure of independence from the indefatigable Hubert. She now spends most of her time at their lakeside house in Waverly, Minn. "What is the life of a Senator's wife anyway?" she muses. "I find more satisfaction in doing...
...attack the myriad federal laws and regulations that already benefit special interests - including portions of the Government itself - to the detriment of anti-inflationary policy. The economists denounced such contrivances as methods of restricting competition, propping wages at high levels and sustaining lofty prices for oil, ship ping, meat, even uranium for nuclear power plants. If the more invidious pieces of tailored legislation were repealed or amended, suggested Harvard Economist Hendrik S. Houthakker, the nation's entire price level eventually would be 5% to 10% lower than if no changes were made...